Moving resources to where they’re needed: Survivor Repair Fund
How can I request funds?
We launched this mutual aid fund to support survivors of police violence and their families. Please click the button below to submit a request so someone from CTJC can reach out to you. Please note that as much as we would like it to be, the Fund is not an endless resource, and we sometimes have to pause payments while we work to replenish it.
After you submit a request, someone from CTJC will reach out to you. If we are able to send funds, it is best for us to do that using PayPal. We encourage participants to also check in with a member of our case management team for additional support.
Donate to the fund!
The Survivor Repair Fund is fully sustained by our community, and 100% of donations go directly to survivors. All one-time and recurring donations are needed, welcome, and deeply appreciated! As much as we would like it to be, the Fund is not an endless resource, and we sometimes have to pause payments while we fundraise to replenish it. Recurring donations are one way to help us work towards avoiding those gaps in the future. We invite you to consider a contribution if that’s possible for you, and to spreading the word to your community!
Background & Impact
We launched the Survivor Relief Fund in March of 2020 to offer a needed response to financial emergencies that were brought on by the onset of COVID-19. Through unexpected job and income loss and shifting availability in supportive services this fund provided a needed response to financial emergencies in the form of direct support to survivors and families. Since 2020, this fund has distributed more than $60,000 to survivors to help with necessary costs like emergency housing, groceries and medical costs, transportation, rent, and utilities. During that time, it has also become clear that the uncertainty and challenges our community felt in 2020 have not disappeared. For this reason, we have committed to maintaining the fund as a revolving resource and a means of practicing ongoing repair with survivors of police violence and torture.
To better reflect this work, we have decided to re-name it the Survivor Repair Fund.
Why “Repair”?
While relief often comes as a short-term response to an emergency, we see repair as a continuous act of healing and care that happens together with community. The existence of a resource like the Repair Fund illustrates the ongoing crises of structural violence, racialized over-policing, and ongoing pandemic, and the disproportionate impact of deep systemic inequity on Black and Brown communities. We see with clarity the need for structural redistribution of resources, and we are not absolving the system of creating these conditions of crisis.
The Fund is an important resource with critical impact, and we know it is a temporary means of survival while we continue to work to build the new world we envision.